Tag: Exhibitions

Exhibition: Vernacular Cultures and Contemporary Art from Australia, India and the Philippines

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Vernacular Cultures and Contemporary Art from Australia, India and the Philippines 3 May – 17 June LUMA | La Trobe University Museum of Art Curated as part of La Trobe University’s 2011 Festival of Ideas, this exhibition features contemporary artists whose work incorporates expressions of indigenous and/or locally specific popular cultures. Examining diverse practices that engage themes including surf culture, tattoo designs, informal architectural and colloquial language, the exhibition asks how contemporary artists remobolise vernacular cultures to interrogate and mediate the cultural ethics of globalisation. La Trobe University Museum of Art La Trobe University Ground floor, Glenn College Bundoora Campus Opening Hours: Mon – Fri, 10am – 5pm. Free admission http://www.latrobe.edu.au/luma

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Exhibition – Arlo Mountford ‘The Vanishing Point of History’ (LUMA)

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Arlo Mountford: The Vanishing Point of History Arlo Mountford’s practice consists primarily of elaborate, flash-based digital films presented within interactive installations. This exhibition surveys a series of darkly humorous works in which iconic artists, events and works from the history of art are remixed and reanimated in his characteristically hi-tech, low-fi aesthetic. Exhibition Dates: 21 February – 21 April Opening: Wednesday, 2nd March, 6-8pm LUMA | La Trobe University Museum of Art http://www.latrobe.edu.au/luma

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Monash University Museum of Art Reopens

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Monash University Museum of Art Reopens with Launch Exhibition ‘Change’ The Monash Museum of Art has unveiled their new home with an exhibition entitled Change (27 October – 18 December). The new site is at Monash University’s Caulfield campus and includes a range of gallery spaces, a sculpture court, a public sculpture by Callum Morton, and a series of  ‘distinctive threshold spaces’ including the camopy, spine and light-well. The museum was designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects. The new design provides increased gallery space and will allow the museum to present an expanded program of exhibitions, special projects, education and public programs, as well as displaying works from the Monash University collection, which includes over 1800 works. The launch exhibition showcases this collection with works from the 1960s to the present day. Artist’s represented include John Brack, Charles Blackman, John Perceval,…

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Victus Hobday – Magician of the Palimpsest: William Kentridge

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‘Magician of the Palimpsest – William Kentridge’ Cinq Thémes Paris, Jeu de Paume 29.06.10 – 5.09.10 NB:  This exhibition ‘William Kentridge: Five Themes’ is currently on in Melbourne at ACMI, Federation Square until May 27th 2012 – see here for details of the Melbourne Show. The Jeu de Paume is a public gallery situated overlooking the Place de Concorde in a corner of the Tuilleries Garden. From the outside it appears to be a large classical mausoleum for retired double-decker buses or perhaps a large garden pavilion of the nineteenth century that would feature fusty old examples of gilt-framed dark offerings. It is deceptive. Once the home to the Impressionist works that are now housed in the Musee D’Orsay the Jeu de Paume was renovated in the early 1990’s with the new purpose of featuring individual artists and particularly retrospectives.…

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Exhibition – The Cipher’s Interval (La Trobe University Museum of Art)

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The Cipher’s Interval Lyn Plummer’s installations engage sound and digital imagery and wall and floor forms in a wide range of materials. She investigates the diverse ways that significant meanings can be attached to space, forms, marks, images, sounds and silences, and how connotations of these symbols shift with each exhibition space, the variations of the elements and of the nature of the intervals between them. Lyn Plummer 8 September – 31 October LUMA | La Trobe University Museum of Art – http://www.latrobe.edu.au/luma/ To be opened by Dr Dan Wollmering, Senior Lecturer Department of Fine Arts, faculty of Art and Design, Monash University. Date: Tuesday 14th September 6-8pm (RSVP Friday 10th September). Public Programs Lyn Plummer in Conversation Date: Friday 24 September, 11am-12pm Venue: La Trobe University Museum of Art LUMA director Vincent Alessi talks to Lyn Plummer abot the…

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Exhibition: ‘Charles Nodrum Selects’ LUMA

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Charles Nodrum Selects Exhibition of works from the La Trobe University Art Collection and talk by Charles Nodrum La Trobe University Museum of Art 14 July – 29 August 2020 In a personal collection, unless you are a masochist, you are not going to hang a work on your wall that you don’t like, just because it happens to be an ‘important painting’ by an ‘important artist’ – Charles Nodrum 20 August 2020 – 11.30 am Charles Nodrum will be appearing at the La Trobe Museum of Art (Bundoora) to discuss his approach to the art of building a personal collection. This is a FREE event but please book to ensure availability of seating (see contact details below). In 1969 Charles Nodrum arrived from England and walked off the street and into a job at Joseph Brown’s prominent Melbourne art…

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Exhibition – ‘Backstage with the Ballet Russes by Daryl Lindsay’

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The new gallery at the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) in Tasma Terrace, East Melbourne will open this Saturday, 24th July with the exhibition Backstage with the Ballet Russes (1936-40). The exhibition will show thirty rare and never been seen before sketches of the Ballets Russes from Sir Daryl Lindsay, former Director of the National Gallery of Victoria. Sir Daryl Lindsay joined a list of many notable Australian artists who found inspiration in the tours of the Ballets Russes. These thirty sketches from Lindsay include costumes from the Australian Ballet. The launch of BackStage with the Ballets Russes by Daryl Lindsay (1936-1940) coincides with the opening up of the Trust’s headquarters – Tasma Terrace – to the public during the weekend of 24 & 25 July as part of Melbourne Open House. Tasma Terrace will be open 10am – 4pm…

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